James paton



(ModeL) J. PATON.

BELTING AND LAGING. No. 247,102. Patented Sept. 13,1881.

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' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

JAMES PATON, OF JOHNSTON, COUNTY OF RENFREW, SCOTLAND.

BELTING AND LACING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 247,102, dated September 13, 1881.

Application filed July 6, 1881. (ModeL) Patented in England May 29, 1880. I

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JAMES PATON, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, and of the town of Johnston, in the county of Renfrew,in that part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called Scotland, mill-owner, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machine-Belts and in Laces for the same, for which I have obtained a patent in Great Britain, No. 2,198, bearing date May 29,1880; and I do hereby declare that the following is full, clear, and exact description of the invention, sufficient to enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention consists of certain improvements in machine-belts and belt-laces of plaited fabrics or braids, and has for its objectto render such belts and laces stronger and more durable than those hitherto employed.

The method or process of making the belt consists, first, of plaiting the yarns of cotton, wool, hemp, flax, jute, manila, orlike fiber, or

combination of these or similar fibers, either.

in a machine or by hand, to the breadth and thickness required to form the belt or lace; second, of washing the plaited fibrous fabric, or the yarns before they are made into the fabric, in hot water, with or without the addition of ashes or alkaline lyes; third, of imbuing the belt or lace with an astringent substance, such as tannin, by immersion, or boiling in a solution of cutch, tannin, or other astringent;

fourth, of saturating or impregnating the belt or lace with oil, wax, t-allow, grease, tar, rosin, rubber, or any compound thereof; fifth, of pressing the belt or lace during its manufacture by running it through a series of calenderrolls until its surface is fiat and even and the several yarns forming the plaiting and braid are forced hard upon each other; sixth, of stretching'the belt or lace in the operation of pressing it until its tensile elasticity is practically exhausted and the liability of the belt or lace to stretch in use is removed.

The finished plaited fabrics are cut in suitable lengths for machine-belts and laces, and the smaller sizes are used for laces for connecting orjoining together the ends-of machinebelts. The ends of the laces may beprovided with tags or threading-wires, fixed onto one or both ends of each length by means of a tagging-machine, to render them suitable for use instead of or as a substitute for leather thon gs hitherto used for lacing machinebelts or bands. These improved belt-laces are suitable for lacing ordinary cotton, rubber, or leather belts, as well as for the improved belts.

The belts or laces may be painted, if desired.

My improved belts and laces are so made and manufactured as to render them much stronger and more durable than ordinary cotton or other fabric belts or laces of the same weight. The yarns, strands, or cords which compose the plaited belt or lace all take up the longitudinal tensile strain on the belt or lace, whereas in ordinary woven belts or laces the warp-threads only receive the strain, and, there being no transverse strain, the weft is unaffected.

Having now described my invention and shown how the same may be manufactured, I claim- The method substantially herein described of making a belt or lace, which method consists of first plaitin g together the twisted fibrous yarn to the desired breadth and thickness,

JAMES PATON,

Witnesses: v

FREDERICK JOHN CHEESBROUGH, JOHN HAMILTON REDMoNn, Both of 15 Water Street, Liverpool, England. 

